It seems that PSG have dropped Dusan Vlahovic for fear of having to deal with a player limited by a chronic problem with pubalgia: it is feared that he will be subject to further stoppages
Dr. Antonio Guglielmi, an expert in the treatment of pubalgia in sportsmen, spoke to the microphones of calciomercato.it, broadcast on the Twitch TVPLAY channel, to talk about Dusan Vlahovic’s limitation
“Behind pubalgia there can be more than sixty causes, including minor and infrequent ones,” explained Dr Guglielmi. “All conditions that can lead to pubic pain. We must therefore change the medical concept of this pathology. Football is, together with hockey, the sport that most frequently causes this type of problem’.
‘Great expectations arise in the world of football. And many boys in the youth teams are unable to move forward because of this pathology. Today there are important innovations with conservative interventions that are minimally invasive and simple. They generally give great results,” the doctor continued. “You have to understand the causes of pubalgia and then go to work on physiotherapy to revive the player.
“The earlier a patient takes action, i.e. three or four months after onset and starts treatment, obviously the better. Forcing the hand leads to accessory pathologies, and this applies to all sports injuries. I think it is essential to recognise the reason for the pubalgia in order to understand what type of treatment to use. The end of the season is when I operate the most because the players know they have a chance to recover in time, while during the year we try to postpone or delay the problem. “
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Juventus, therefore, may have made wrong decisions regarding the treatment of Vlahovic’s pubalgia. “The space to heal these situations is there, without having damage over time and preventing it from becoming chronic. If a problem is not treated, defence mechanisms are created. The other important element in pubalgia is the fear of getting injured and being forced to miss many matches: this situation can worsen the clinical picture. “
Dusan Vlahovic
“When I operate on young guys I try to calm them down and convince them that they will come back stronger than before,” continued the doctor, according to whom it is always possible to recover 100 per cent after proper treatment.
“The relapse, like Vlahovic’s for example, depends on what has been done. There is no single technique to deal with pubalgia. Even the best of these does not have 100 per cent resolution in every case, and that is a fundamental fact.”
“Generally there are various causes that lead to a relapse and it is not certain that the end result will lead to a complete recovery. In Vlahovic’s case, it is presumable that there were associated causes that did not lead to complete resolution, which is why I believe different types of interventions were needed,” the doctor concluded.